Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 2

In the nest a queen lays the eggs and her daughters, the workers, do all the other jobs; no ant gives orders, each one follows simple rules.

Who acts: queen, ant, one · What happens: lay, do, give, follow · To what, where: eggs, nest, other jobs, orders, simple rules

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, ant, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 nest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nest	det
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	nsubj
6	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lays	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 daughters	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughters	nmod:poss
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eggs	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 workers	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 workers	det
14	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 daughters	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lays	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 jobs	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jobs	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jobs	amod
20	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 ant	det
23	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	nsubj
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lays	parataxis
25	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gives	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 follows	punct
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 follows	nsubj
29	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 gives	conj
30	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rules	amod
31	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 follows	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lay	present	a queen	the eggs and queen's daughters	the nest	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination
2	do	present	a queen not said here	all other jobs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	give	present	no ant	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	follow	present	each one	simple rules		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges.lesson:2.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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